A Question for the Group Mind

[rolanni]

Now, I Understand Perfectly why it is that you don't want to pay the ferryman before you get to the other side. After all, if the fee were paid at the outset, the old fella might very well get tired of you half-way across and leave you to sleep with the fishes.

What I Don't Understand, though, is why you mustn't even fix a price.

Anybody?



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Comments

[damara.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing here, but maybe ... cause then he's entitled to take his pay off your corpse?

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

But that's a flat rate: the two coins on your eyes.

So the question is, is your passage worth more if you're dead or alive?

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

The dead weigh heavier than the living. (Mary Renault told me that, and I must believe her.)

I figure that if you annoy the ferryman while bargaining, he throws you overboard on general principle.

Me, I'm waiting until they build a bridge.